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themorningline.substack.com | Paul Daugherty
*Please welcome our Friday Hemingway, Matthew Cox. He’s a frequent contributor to The Morning Line and a longtime reader of the “original” TML in physical printed form in free Enquirer copies provided by the Wilmington College library. When he’s not schlepping free content, Matt enjoys walking, fishing and community outreach work in his hometown of Muncie, Ind. Without further ado. . . These Pacers, man. These Pacers are hell on your pulse rate with their whip-it-around speed of play.
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2 days ago | 
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3 days ago | 
infobae.com | Paul Daugherty |H. James Wilson |Karthik Narain |Prashant Shukla
Hemos entrado en una era de disrupción radical, donde las oleadas de nuevas tecnologías hacen que la reinvención continua sea la estrategia empresarial predeterminada. La IA generativa es solo la innovación más reciente de muchas que vendrán, y que las organizaciones deberán incorporar con rapidez y a gran escala, o correrán el riesgo de quedarse atrás frente a sus competidores.
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3 days ago | 
themorningline.substack.com | Paul Daugherty
The writing comes more easily every day. That could be because I’m not trying as hard. For better or worse, the synapses crackle freely with ideas now, unburdened by editors or newspaper convention or the self-conscious need to make every essay better than the last one. I was guilty of that last crime for only 40 or so years. Trying too hard is the enemy of sports and sports writers. Try making short putts when you agonize over them.
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4 days ago | 
themorningline.substack.com | Paul Daugherty
Whatever it takes. *Injuries have derailed them, underachievement has gouged them. The organization’s seemingly endless ability to overestimate its major-league talent has blind-sided them, again. The lack of funds remains front and center. With all due respect, a team that signs Garrett Hampson isn’t exactly aiming for the stars. And here we are. Schools are barely out, summer’s barely arrived. One of summer’s reasons to exist is already falling to the fringes of our Republic’s consciousness.
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5 days ago | 
themorningline.substack.com | Paul Daugherty
Golf magazine*Michael Jordan was like that. When he wanted to beat you, he did. And he wanted to beat you all the time. Tiger Woods, ditto. Mike Tyson in his prime? You’d have better luck knocking out a steel wall. And now, Scottie Scheffler. Greatness is making the difficult seem routine. Routine greatness is what Scheffler does now. He won for the third time in his last four golf tournaments Sunday, dispatching a notable field in a prestigious tournament, the Memorial.
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1 week ago | 
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1 week ago | 
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Might the sun set on the NFL in Cincinnati? *Until now, the notion of the Bengals leaving Cincinnati was purely speculative, conceptual and, more importantly, years in the future. I can’t be worrying about Bengals stadium issues when I don’t even know what I’m having for dinner tonight. That’s over. Time is not our friend or on our side or willing to wait around for us. Time is here. The Paycor Stadium lease is up next year.
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1 week ago | 
themorningline.substack.com | Paul Daugherty
Downtown Detroit on NFL Draft Day, 2024. Who needs a stadium? *Of all the games I’ve covered in the past two generations, only the Masters is up to the hype. Everything else is just as good from the couch. Often, better. It’s the most interesting — and least discussed — dynamic of the debate on publicly funded ballparks. Are we best suited as a community paying 10 figures for expensive playpens that make rich people richer?
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1 week ago | 
themorningline.substack.com | Paul Daugherty
Welcome to FreeForAll Tuesday. If you like what you read here, it’s $8/month or $80/year. Welcome and thanks for reading. *The Morning Line is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. In one of his last public acts, Sid Phillips, my father in law, stepped into the cockpit of a B-17 bomber that last August had made a scheduled landing at Lunken Field. Sid died last winter, which was sad.
